Word: lettrist
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...slang. It’s getting easier to forget that there was a time when subtle, deliberately constructed letters, ripe with frustration and emotion, were the common form of exchange.Guy Debord lived in such a time. Born in Paris in 1931, he was a founding member of both the Lettrist International and Situationist International movements, and he wrote letters—a lot of them. The SI movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed, SI embraced propaganda—what they saw as “arts as a means”—within...
Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey...
Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...
Gypsy Rose Lee, belle-lettrist, ex-ecdysiast, ex-wife of Actor Alexander Kirkland, fondly regarded her one-month-old son and announced her considered view of motherhood: "It took a long time, but from now on, it's my hobby...
...Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
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